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The House on Mango Street is all about voice. It’s about being heard. It’s about inventing new languages when the old ones don’t work. In the author's words, it's about “the ugliest subjects I could find. The most unpoetic.”

In real life, The House on Mango Street may not have been much to look at, but its story won the American Book Award and has become a required reading classic.